On 8/24/25 1:50 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
I note that much of the documentation still uses a quoting style that pretends that characters U+0060 and U+0027 are matching opening and closing quotes, and that new documentation is still being added that follows this style. For extra credit, they're sometimes redoubled as `` and '' to be fake double quotes.
With apologies to Billy Joel for paraphrasing, did you wake up in the morning with your hair on fire?
GNU is the last serious hold-out, and "this is how we've always done it" won't wash any more.
So it's some sort of imperative that this be `fixed' immediately? Is it
that much of a crisis? Something to spend immediate effort on?
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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